tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219776752011-04-21T16:50:32.741-07:00Incisive and devestating film criticism of modern and classic cinema.The Driverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09801478532197020747noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21977675.post-1141438162026200842006-03-03T17:18:00.000-08:002006-03-03T19:25:52.183-08:00

Chud has a very short interview with High Tension director Alexander Aja. They cover a little bit on the Hills Have Eyes remake as well as some upcoming projects one of which is an adaptation of Charles Burns' Black Hole, a strange melodrama/sci-fi comic book that's at once relatable and alienating, I can't recommend it enough.Aja wouldn't have been my first choice as a director but then I don't

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categories: photography flickrIt's hardly original but one of my favorite websites these days is flickr. I really admire their innovative code design and features but all that aside some of the photographers on there are amazing.Here's a link to one of the best I've seen on there as of late. I love this urban minimalist stuff, it really makes me regret not getting out and taking pictures enough.

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categories: A Scanner Darkly Keanue Reeves Richard LinklaterPost number two and then I'm done for the day, I've got things to tend to after all.Honestly, I don't think I've anticipated anything in my life as this A Scanner Darkly movie. It helps that I've been hearing about it for four years, watching trailers for it for two and it was supposed to come out last summer.As a follow up to my

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categories: Tales Designed To Thrizzel FantagraphicsThis month's Comic Of The Year is the stop-what-you're-doing and laugh Tales Designed to Thrizzel. In just two issues this has become one of the few books I look forward reading. Writer / penciler Michael Kupperman (who may be shown on the right but that's probably just someone with the same name) must be possessed of the creative genius of

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categories: Werner Herzog Bruno S. StroszekStroszek is a good film that hits occasional heights of grandeur without ever actually being great.Bruno S. plays Bruno Stroszek and it’s an incomprehensible cipher of a performance. He’s a strange dolt but also an unhinged maniac. He looks like he’s thinking very hard but understanding very little.In the beginning of the film we see him get out

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I've been a good soldier of cinema.-w. herzogPeople have kept asking me what I know about Werner Herzog's recent assasination attempt. I'd kept hearing about it but all I could find was the same old yahoo news article.Well here it is. the video clip of the bbc interview in question. It's a great interview and also a nice summation of his film Grizzley ManI'd really like to learn more about this

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One of my very favorite comix ever is the glory days (issues 1-15) of Pete Bagge's Hate. I still read after it went color and Buddy moved back to Jersey but it wasn't quite the same anymore.Bagge's sloppy, anything goes penciling style managed to walk the fine line between post-Nirvana angst and slapstick comedy. It was one of the few things in this world that could consistently make me laugh.So

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We've actually been getting a little bit of traffic over here on the blacktop but a lot of people don't really bother with the rss feed (the titular 'weird button').In fact, whenever I mention our feed people just stare back at me in oblivion. Luckily one of my very favorite websites, lifehacker, has an informative article about how to use rss.Read it, learn it, love it.

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If I were a classic film which one would I be...I had my suspicions all along.Don't be a wet blanket, take the test.

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Here's an article about the controversial new Iraqi movie Valley of the Wolves starring Gary Busey and Billy Zane.By the way this is BZ's follow up to Bloodrayne from director Uwe Boll. valley of the wolves

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I'm very excited to present my first ever legimate comment:OoBrOwNEyEz said... If you like movies, check out MATCH POINT- a WOODY ALLEN film. I think you will like it... Well that's just awful."If you like movies"??? What about my blog would give you that idea?Seriously, what is this shit?!? OoBrowneyez (if that's even your real name) must be some sort of relative of this WOODY

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I’m proud to present this historic occasion, Two Lane Reviews first ever review of a new theatrically released movie. The new movie in question is Lars Von Trier’s Manderlay AKA Dogville II. First a recap of Dogville I. A mysterious woman shows up to a small depression era town hidden away in the Colorado mountains. The woman’s name is Grace and she tells the towns people that she is being

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There's a new trailer up for what is undoubtedly, for me at least, the most anticipated film this year. A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater's adaptation of PK Dick's best novel.For the past five or six years Richard Linklater has been one of my favorite working directors. No doubt 2001 was a land mark year for the guy, releasing two brilliant films back to back; the often misunderstood A Waking

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Here in the days of unprecedented information access Monte Hellman’s career has managed to inhabit one the last remaining blind spots of cinema history. Two thousand years after Jesus a surprisingly large section of his cannon remains unavailable on home video. The always illuminating folks at Film Threat spill some light on the subject. At least they tried but unfortunately their links are

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In my search for more insight into the impenetrable mystery that is TLBT I'm contantly looking online for the definitive review.Gerald Perry's review is a little too brief to qualify as "definitive" but it packs alot of information into it's two paragraphs so I'm putting up a link.On the other end of the competence spectrum is this review from something called allwatchers.com, offensively enough

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Spike Lee’s first film, School Daze, is a smart raunchy frat comedy that could maybe be thought of as a black version of Animal House but only if you’re superficial and racist. The movie takes place on the campus of a prestigious black college where, in the tradition of college comedies, no one is seen in a classroom ever. Instead there’s some kind of feud brewing between Dap played by Lawrence

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When we're talking about "The Long Goodbye" we're talking about one of the bests of the 70's, we're talking about another one by Altman but what we should really be talking about is Elliot Gould. His performance in this movie rivals any great film role of the genre and the time. With the freedom granted by Altman Gould because a new "hip" Bogart, a different kind of private detective. This is a

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If I had to pick a favorite film from last year’s commercial releases, and it’s no use trying to stop me, it’d definitely be Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin. From the stunning revelation of the opening shot (cereal from the sky) to the catharsis / horror of the final. It’s a strange, gross, brutal and very beautiful story about troubled teenagers in an impoverished town. This is a genre of

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Dear Internets, It is with great pleasure and honor of extra-ordinary magnitude that I christen this blog Two Lane Movie Reviews. Our title comes from a movie called Two-Lane Blacktop, the apex of minimalist 1970's head films. I'm sure you could dig up a summary on the internet.I'm sure you'll all want to go checking that one out but you can't be finding it on netflix.

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This weekend there was one movie America just couldn’t stay away from, Big Momma’s House 2! The sequel America loves. And who can blame ‘em? I mean, just get aload of this hi-larious trailer; Falling off stools !?! Too much!!! White people dancing ?!? Outragous!!!!!!!!!! Martin Lawrence !?! I believe against all reason that he's great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Exclamaitiong marks?!?!

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